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In this paper, we present rIC3, an efficient bit-level hardware model checker primarily based on the IC3 algorithm. It boasts a highly efficient implementation and integrates several recently proposed optimizations, such as the specifically…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Yuheng Su , Qiusong Yang , Yiwei Ci , Tianjun Bu , Ziyu Huang

State-of-the-art model-checking algorithms like IC3/PDR are based on uni-directional modular SAT solving for finding and/or blocking counterexamples. Modular SAT solvers divide a SAT-query into multiple sub-queries, each solved by a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Hari Govind V K , Isabel Garcia-Contreras , Sharon Shoham , Arie Gurfinkel

CDCL-based SAT solvers have transformed the field of automated reasoning owing to their demonstrated efficiency at handling problems arising from diverse domains. The success of CDCL solvers is owed to the design of clever heuristics that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Arijit Shaw , Kuldeep S. Meel

Property Directed Reachability (PDR) is a widely used technique for formal verification of hardware and software systems. This paper presents an incremental version of PDR (IPDR), which enables the automatic verification of system instances…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Max Blankestijn , Alfons Laarman

Model checking is an automatic formal verification technique that is widely used in hardware verification. The state-of-the-art complete model-checking techniques, based on IC3/PDR and its general variant CAR, are based on computing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Yibo Dong , Yu Chen , Jianwen Li , Geguang Pu , Ofer Strichman

The IC3 algorithm, also known as PDR, has made a significant impact in the field of safety model checking in recent years due to its high efficiency, scalability, and completeness. The most crucial component of IC3 is inductive…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Yuheng Su , Qiusong Yang , Yiwei Ci

With the slowdown of improvement in conventional von Neumann systems, increasing attention is paid to novel paradigms such as Ising machines. They have very different approach to NP-complete optimization problems. Ising machines have shown…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Anshujit Sharma , Matthew Burns , Andrew Hahn , Michael Huang

Applying pre- and inprocessing techniques to simplify CNF formulas both before and during search can considerably improve the performance of modern SAT solvers. These algorithms mostly aim at reducing the number of clauses, literals, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-10-18 Andreas Wotzlaw , Alexander van der Grinten , Ewald Speckenmeyer

Boolean satisfiability (SAT) has an extensive application domain in computer science, especially in electronic design automation applications. Circuit synthesis, optimization, and verification problems can be solved by transforming original…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Te-Hsuan Chen , Ju-Yi Lu

The NeuroSAT neural network architecture was recently introduced for predicting properties of propositional formulae. When trained to predict the satisfiability of toy problems, it was shown to find solutions and unsatisfiable cores on its…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Daniel Selsam , Nikolaj Bjørner

In various scenarios, a single phase of modelling and solving is either not sufficient or not feasible to solve the problem at hand. A standard approach to solving AI planning problems, for example, is to incrementally extend the planning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Gökberk Koçak , Özgür Akgün , Nguyen Dang , Ian Miguel

This paper describes a novel unbounded software model checking approach to find errors in programs written in the C language based on incremental SAT-solving. Instead of using the traditional assumption based API to incremental SAT solvers…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Marko Kleine Büning , Tomas Balyo , Carsten Sinz

We explore the potential of continuous local search (CLS) in SAT solving by proposing a novel approach for finding a solution of a hybrid system of Boolean constraints. The algorithm is based on CLS combined with belief propagation on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Anastasios Kyrillidis , Moshe Y. Vardi , Zhiwei Zhang

Coarse-Grain Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) are emerging low-power architectures aimed at accelerating compute-intensive application loops. The acceleration that a CGRA can ultimately provide, however, heavily depends on the quality of the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Cristian Tirelli , Lorenzo Ferretti , Laura Pozzi

While accelerated computing has transformed many domains of computing, its impact on logical reasoning, specifically Boolean satisfiability (SAT), remains limited. State-of-the-art SAT solvers rely heavily on inherently sequential…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Steve Dai , Cunxi Yu , Kalyan Krishnamani , Brucek Khailany

In this paper, we propose an algorithm for the positive one-in-three satisfiability problem (Pos1in3SAT). The proposed algorithm can efficiently decide the existence of a satisfying assignment in all assignments for a given formula by using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Shunichi Matsubara

The Circuit Satisfiability (CSAT) problem, a variant of the Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problem, plays a critical role in integrated circuit design and verification. However, existing SAT solvers, optimized for Conjunctive Normal Form…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Zhengyuan Shi , Tiebing Tang , Jiaying Zhu , Sadaf Khan , Hui-Ling Zhen , Mingxuan Yuan , Zhufei Chu , Qiang Xu

Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problems are routinely solved by SAT solvers in real-life applications, yet solving time can vary drastically between solvers for the same instance. This has motivated research into machine learning models that…

We consider to design a new efficient and easy-to-implement algorithm to solve a general group sparse optimization model with a class of non-convex non-Lipschitz regularizations, named as fast iterative thresholding and support-and-scale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Yanan Zhao , Qiaoli Dong , Yufei Zhao , Chunlin Wu

This paper describes diff-SAT, an Answer Set and SAT solver which combines regular solving with the capability to use probabilistic clauses, facts and rules, and to sample an optimal world-view (multiset of satisfying Boolean variable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Matthias Nickles
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